Furnishing tactics and urban public space: a few experiments.
A nomadic, dynamic and incidental modality of public spaces may virtually penetrate any place. That public space in progress may hypothetically form a side and fluctuating constellation activating the frame of the existing town. Through various research and action projects led together with the urban exploration workshop SYN-, a few possibilities pertaining to this perspective will be discussed. Among those experiments, the “Hypothèses d’amarrages” (“docking hypotheses”) project, for instance, aims at updating a possible variant of that virtual constellation by scrutinising Montréal’s metropolitan territory in search of underused sites suitable for halts. Intervention tactics consist in a spontaneous layout of picnic tables. The Hypothèses d’insertions (“insertion hypotheses”) project pursues research within other urban contexts, this time experimenting the relational possibilities of shorter activation duration with portable and play devices.
Architect, Architecture History and Theory professor, University of Laval, Québec
Luc Lévesque is an Architectural Practices History and Theory professor in the History Department at the University of Laval (Québec). He is an architect and a founding member of the urban exploration workshop SYN-. His recent research was about the possibilities of a side approach to the urban landscape. He is a member of the editing committee of Inter art actuel magazine and he supervised several reports about architecture, urban landscape and practices. As an architect, he collaborated with various American and European offices.
